February 14, 1932 - Sunday

I had such a delightful awakening at about eleven this morning. Dorothy brought out a big red heart shaped box to me. It had a darling old fashioned bouquet in it. A valentine from George. We went to the concert. It was wonderful. He stayed ‘til six. I start lock up this week.

There is an envelope in the scrap book that came with the valentine box with  a card which read "A heart shaped box of lowers for a valentine from George." It is a wonderful old valentine. The sentiment: "Lady, I'm a one woman guy and there ain't many of us left. so buzz around."

George's letter home:

Dear Mother,

I think that I had the most wonderful time of my life last night. It was the Alpha Phi formal, and my little darling was beautiful in a new formal. She called it her “hussy” dress, because it didn’t have a back to it. Whenever we danced by the patrons, she made me dance with my back to them – she must have been very self-conscious of it. The rooms were all decorated to represent a pent-house in a very tall building, and while I had to have some things explained to me, I thought it was very well done.

This morning, a lot of us rented some bicycles and rode out to Springfield and back. The weather was crisp, but there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. After dinner, Anne and I went to hear the Kedrov quartet. They were wonderful, mother, I certainly wished you and Dad could have been there too. All of their songs were in Russian of course, but their voices were what we were all interested in anyway.

Now I am home writing you this little letter before I begin to study a bit of Economics. Foreign trade doesn’t interest me, but the lords of the University seem to think it quite necessary. So I must away to my books and leave the memories of this weekend for another time.

Love, Brother

P.S. The pride and joy of Sheridan is in love again; let us pray that this one is not as expensive as the last.

Jane’s Notes: I believe that George's P.S. is referring to Stand Haberlack.

From Wikipeida - Nikolay Kedrov, Sr. From 1894 to 1897 he studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, becoming an operatic baritone who performed at various theaters, including the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatre.

In 1897 he organized a men's vocal quartet (Saint Petersburg Russian vocal quartet). Their first concert was held in 1898 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The repertoire of the quartet included Russian folk songs, ballads, opera music, then gradually liturgical music appeared. The quartet each year successfully toured Europe, including participation in Diaghilev’s seasons. In 1913/1914 Feodor Chaliapin and the quartet recorded a musical album in London. In 1917, Kedrov became a professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.^{[citation needed]}

Some time after the October Revolution, in 1922, the family emigrated from Russia and lived in Berlin, in 1928 moved to France. In Paris, Kedrov recreated the quartet (Quatuor Kedroff). The repertoire of the ensemble in exile included liturgical chants of the Russian Orthodox Church. The quartet toured in Europe and North America. Kedrov taught at the Paris Conservatoire.